Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-03-12


 on the Gsllicia frontier. Experience ! diplomats are of the opinion that wG will not break out this year. If Rul
 sia meant to attack this year, she woul
 begin earlier. The immediate dange
 is the Bulgarian revolution. If that
 escaped. peace may yet be preserved.
 SAN FRANCISCO. March at IS state
 to-day that the South Pacific CoAs
 raiirosd, narrOw gRnge line from Ssi
 Francesca to SsutR Cruz, controlled b.
 Senator James Fair, has been sold t
 the Chicago, Burlington < Quincy road
 which IL IS also announced is pushing
 plan for through route to San Fran. CISCO az fast ss possible. The represen
 tative of the c. B. & Q. R. R. ID thi city denies that sale has been effected
 SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-At a meet ing If the carmen's assembly, KnightI of Labor, last night, it was decided tG continue the strike and boycott on th, Sutter and Gesry street cable lines but to permanently discontinue csrmen'i omnibus line.
 SOFIA, March 5-Nine of the Rust chuck rebels have been sentenced to death. The cOnsuls of the various pow. CTS at Rustchuck have urged the post. ponement of the carrying out of the sen. tence. The other troops who took part ID the insurrection have been sentenced to prison. Captain Ballmsn, charged with being one of the leaders of the in- surrectiOn, has been sentenced to prison. He claimed tO be a Russian subject and has sought German protection. Order prevails everywhere in Bulgaria today.
 NEW YORK, March 5-The Stars Lon- don cablegrsm says. "Telegrnms from Cons.sntinOple state that Russia will not permit the punishment of her agents in the unsuccessful emeute at Silistora, and has warned the Bulgarian regency that they will be held responsible for injury to the persons and property of Russisn subjects. The regency have resolved tO bring all Bulgarian officers to lustice who were concerned m the mutiny, and deal vigorously with all offenders Re ports from Russia represent that leading Muscoyite papers are clsmOring for tbe armed occupation of Bulgaria by the Russian army ss the only possible sOlu- tion of the difficulty that threatens end less complications and the destruction of Russian prestige in the Balkan states,
 BRUSSELS. March 5-An explosion of fire damp occurred to-day m the colliery at Quaregnen, four miles from Mons, The explosion shattered roofs and gal leries SO that many of them fell One hundred min r. are entOm5ed, but it IS not yet known whether any are killed. On account Of the blockade of the pas ssges the work of rescue is slow end difficult
 LArER:-A dispatch from Mons says l2G men who were ID the mine at the time of the explosion, were killed It had not been possible at the time the dispatch was sent, tO reach the dead bodies of the victims
 LONDON, March 5-It is officially an nounced this afternoon that Michael Hicks Beach has resigned the office of Secretary for Ireland sad that Arthur J. secretary of state for Scotland. has been appointed to succeed hin.
 WASHINGTON, March 4--The presi- dent has commuted the death sentence in the cases of John Washington and Simmons Mslff, two Seminole andiBns, to life imprisonmeDt. These Indians were convicted of rape on the person of a white woman in the Indian Territory and were sentenced tO be hanged on ,he 6sh of February last. The president granted rt spite until March ith. and ngs commutsd the sentence. His action was based on a doubt as to the guilt of he Indians.
 WAsHISGroS, March 4.-The bill for he redemption of the trade dollar and he au'i-pOlygsmy bill have become laws without the presidents signature by reason of the expiration ofi the con ,;itutiOnsl limitation within which be should have returned the bills tO con yress in case of disapproval. Both bills V ere carefully considered by the presi- lent, and while they contained some provisions 10 which he cared not to commit himself, he was unwilling to de- 'eat the objects of the measure by veto.
 PHILADELPHIA, March 4.-The general freight department of the Pennsylvania railroad gives notice that owing to the operation of the iu tar-stste lsw, all ex- sting contracts, tariff rates and special rates for transportation of all classes of freight which by their terms do not sooner end, will cease and terminate on April 4th.
 LONDON, March 5.-Michsel Hicks Beach is suffering from cstsIrh and his was due Co that cause. He will proceed to Berlin for the purpose of treatment by a celebrated Dcculist in that city.
 WASHINGTON, March 5.-The Secre- aH NA 1a .HN aA hA cholera hss been officially declared as epidemic at Montevideo.
 MORALES, A. T., March 5.-Some time Thursday night some unknown person blew up the store and house of T. Lillie Mercer, at Tubac, destroying sll his goods and everything in the building, by giant power. Every vegtige of the build iug and goods was blown to atoms. Some one, supposed to be the same party who destroyed the store fred his dwelling house. which is completely des iroyed, with all of his household goOds, Inc inmates barely escaping with their lives.
 It was done m the middle of the night when no one was awake. The work ot devastation was accomplished before he inhabitants were aware of what was going on. Besides this. they set fire tO his buggy and burned that, consequent y Mir. Mercer IS resrly, if not entirely. ruined The postoffice, which was kept n Mir. Mercer's store, is also total wreck.
 WASHINGTON. March 5,-Ths post master general has made arrangements for fas, mail servics between the east and southwest. The arrangement enables the transcontinentsl mail for Nexico and southern California to se ,ure earlier connections SO that sub full dsy's gain of 24 hours is gained at Denver, Cheyenne, Lsrsmie, b yden and Fl Paso. the City of Mexico snd San Francisco and the southern California offices on these lines. The new provision will begin with the train leaving New York on Saturday night he l2th of Msich, and the service will be Q daily one.
 SOFIA, March 4.-The government au- thoriiies have placed under arrest thirty persons, including ksrsvelof and Tea poT. who were found to be in communi- cation with the insurgents at SIlestria and Rustchuck. They are also charged with being implicated in the formation Df thirty armed men for the purpose of creating G disturbance here and adding to tLe com plicStiOn with which the re- gency have contended,
 WASHINGTON, March 4,-Before lesv-